What It’s Like To Adapt A Superhero For The Netflix Screen

“Jessica Jones” showrunner Melissa Rosenberg: “It changes quite a bit for cable. It becomes more about continuing story lines than it does about case-of-the-week. Because you’re not a slave to commercials and a week in-between each episode, you have all that real estate you normally spend recapping, going to storytelling. So you find yourself really pushing the edges even further than you might otherwise. Netflix is very much into pushing the edges. We went dark.”